Copyright, 18&5, by Mamie Luke. 







Series of- Metrical Queries, with Responses. 



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writeth on the questions of the day, 
Ji/WM On either side of each will have his say, 
And thinketh that he beareth mighty sway ? 

Ye Editor ! ' 

Who maketh mountains of the small molehills. 
And rushing rivers of the gentle rills — 
Gives drops of truth, of fiction many gills? 

Ye Reporter ! 

Who talketh buncombe in spread-eagle style, 
The people calleth " dear," wJth honied smile, 
And maketh millions by his ways of guile ? 

Ye Congressman ! 

Who shouteth loud about the M people's rights," 
Currupt officials most severely 'smites, 
In office placed, reform ne'er expedites ? 

Ye Politician ! 






Who worketh in a field all too obscure, 
Attendeth on our every ill to cure, 
But who to kill us off is far more sure ? 

Ye Doctor ! 

Who playeth " chuck-a-luck " and " high- low-jack," 
With " puts and calls " and things, the cards in pack, 
And worketh up the awful Fridays black ? 

Ye Broker ! 

Who speculateth high with funds in trust, 
To gain great wealth, naught caring to be just, 
And in the end, not far, is bound to " bust " ? 

Ye Bank President. 

Who deprecateth much the legal fight, 
But dons his armor to defend the right, (?) 
And pocketeth high fees with no delight ? 

Ye Lawyer ! 

Who marketh us, as 'twere, with mental stripes. 
And breaketh us all up with pains and gripes, 
With bill for three hours' work on water pipes ? 

Ye Plumber ! 

Who raiseth mantraps high, with slender walls, 
Of which one, every now and then, down falls, 
Which " casualty" startles and appalls ? 

Ye Builder! 

Who ne'er o'ersteppeth honesty's fair bounds — 
Let him but tell it as he goes the rounds — 
Yet for a ton sells eighteen hundred pounds ? 

Ye Coalman ! 

Who mixeth water with — so goes the tale — 
Such drugs and things as would o'ercome a whale, 
And calleth the concoction " Amber Ale" ? 

Ye Brewer ! 



Who selleth us for coffee roasted 1 P eas > 

Dried herbs and divers weeds for Oolong teas, 

And ole'margarine for butter, pleasr 



Ye Grocer ! 



Who slappeth hard the meat upon 
To weigh his fingers with it neve/' 
Thus swelling the amount of dai 



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; scales, 



: fails, 
/ sales ? 

Ye Butcher ! 



Who selleth chalk and water all t 

A little corn-starch in for bogus c e 

For "Orange County milk," with^ e ~ 

hardened guile ? 

Ye Milkman ! 

Who saith 'tis " French," the ski' 

c , .., r u . , i from Yankee calf 

bo chargeth for his shoes too mu 

And at his gains within his sleeve ^ ' 

doth laugh ? 

Who selleth, at the cost per pounfd, a grain, 
And, thriving on disease and mor 
Per cent a thousand maketh as h 




tals' pain, 
s gain ? 

Ye Druggist ! 



Who clubbeth right and left his vvay along, 

Killeth the helpless, maimeth sore the strong, 

But who, in Judges' eyes, can do no wrong? 

Ye Policeman ! 

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Who maketh hideous the day entire, 

With horrid yells and intonation clire, 

And kindleth in our breasts relenftless ire? 

Ye Licensed Vender ! 



Who, for all others, have a kindly 
A warm regard, as tender, quite, £ 
And doeth all things on the " leve 



care, 
s rare, 
1 square " ? 
You and I, Reader ! 



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POETICAJL ADVERTISEMENTS, 

AND/ OTHER WRITING, 
Addre=si- MAMIE LUKE, 



Station W, Brooklyn, N.Y. 




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